Which's Office Automation Software ?

Hi,
I don't know which software is suitable for the following conditions.
Anyone give me any idea ?

OFFICE AUTOMATION SOFTWARE

To supply, licence and install the office automation software
described below, for thirty-five (35) workstations defined in
paragraph 3.1.2.1.19 above:
1. The office automation software files must be fully compatible and
interchangeable with Microsoft Office software.
2. Bidders are specifically instructed to offer open-source solutions
and costings for the office automation software and may also offer
lower cost office automation software solutions (with costings)
provided that all alternatives are able to read and write word
processing and spreadsheet files in a format that is compatible with
Microsoft Windows software.
3. Email and Internet browsing capabilities shall not be required of
the office suite as they are provided in the form of MS Outlook
Express and MS Internet Explorer as part of the workstation operating
system defined in paragraph 3.1.2.1.19 above and these may be used
instead. Bidders are not required to be constrained by this
observation and are invited to offer alternative email solutions
and/or browser options from the open-source community.
4. The most recent patches available shall be added to all software on
the installation on the day of delivery.
5. Each copy of the software must be presented with the original
manufacturer's certificate of authenticity, suitably filed, with
complete documentation linking individual licences to the serial
number of the computer on which it is installed. This information
shall form part of a complete network manual that the bidder shall
hand over upon completion of the project.

Re: Which's Office Automation Software ?

The world rejoiced as vtlphuong_globaleis@yahoo.com (cubi) wrote:
> Hi,
> I don't know which software is suitable for the following conditions.
> Anyone give me any idea ?

Only Microsoft Office is "fully compatible and interchangeable" with
Microsoft Office software.
> 5. Each copy of the software must be presented with the original
> manufacturer's certificate of authenticity, suitably filed, with
> complete documentation linking individual licences to the serial
> number of the computer on which it is installed. This information
> shall form part of a complete network manual that the bidder shall
> hand over upon completion of the project.

That establishes that only Microsoft will be a "legitimate" answer,
because the 'manufacturers' of alternatives do not provide any such
"certificates."

The requirements have evidently been written in such a way that
despite there being a clause claiming that they want people to
"consider" using open source software, they prevent any such option
from conforming to the requirements.
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You see, the comp.windows.x forum is for the discussion of the X network
protocol, and the graphical windowing environments that use it. This forum has
nothing to do with Microsoft Windows except perhaps discussing X implementations
on that platform.

Your question has nothing to do with X, and probably should be asked in one of
the comp.os.ms-windows.* newsgroups instead.